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coin

[koin] / kɔɪn /




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When the student is done, De La Cruz hugs her and presents her with an American flag pin and a personalized Monica De La Cruz challenge coin.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

MarketWatch: What should a parent teach a teenager about crypto before the teenager buys their first coin?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

The Australian jumping spider Portia fimbriata is only about the size of a one-euro coin when fully grown, but its hunting abilities make it particularly interesting to scientists.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

Accusations of fraud arose when Milei posted on X, formerly Twitter, about the $Libra coin, which he said at the time would help fund small businesses and start-ups.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Instead I put a coin on the counter.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

The Finds Liaison Officer will help you get the coins assessed by experts to determine if they meet the legal definition of "treasure" under the Treasure Act 1996, external.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Crypto is a type of digital asset which does not exist physically like cash or coins.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

With grilled chicken and sweet potato coins glossed with maple syrup and orange zest.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

They said they paid $2,146,958.22 for gold coins worth roughly $1,360,925.00, “without any notion that in a matter of just two weeks” their retirement accounts had been sapped of more than $780,000.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

The words that appear on coins are particularly important because they reveal the language that was used at the time they were created.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

Margaret Hamilton was a trailblazer in her field, leading the team who developed the software for Nasa's Apollo missions, which coined the term "software engineering".

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Ekerdt pointed me to a 1988 paper by consumer researcher Russell Belk, who coined the term “extended self” to describe this phenomenon.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

The term “ultraprocessed foods” was coined by nutritional epidemiologist Carlos Monteiro and his team at the University of São Paulo in the early 2000s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

No one seems to know who coined the term, but the label wasn’t what mattered; it was the idea that the military was hiding a device that could fix everything wrong with you.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Galton coined the memorable phrase nature versus nurture to discriminate hereditary and environmental influences.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

In 2019, Trump praised the CEO for Apple’s domestic investments, accidentally coining the nickname “Tim Apple” in the process.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

“Our fans’ love for McDonald’s beverages runs deep, from rallying for the return of Hi-C Orange Lavaburst to coining the iconic ‘Spicy Sprite,’” McDonald’s said in a statement to Barron’s.

From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026

Mr. Ashton, a tech figure known for coining the phrase “the Internet of Things,” seems to regard himself as something of a progressive visionary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

He was someone who took time to get to know the fans and the area, coining the phrase 'first the points, then the pints', and the club is unlikely to have that again.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2025

Little tiny hairs were coining out of his face.

From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis


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